The Boston Celtics are NBA champs once again.
Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown, center, holds up the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy as he celebrates with the team after they won the NBA championship with a Game 5 victory over the Dallas Mavericks, Monday, June 17, 2024, in Boston. , having claimed a milestone title Monday night that will reverberate from coast to coast and carve out legacies for the current pillars of this storied franchise.
Boston never trailed in the series clincher and led by 21 points at halftime, thanks to a 49-foot 3-pointer from Payton Pritchard launched just behind halfcourt to beat the second-quarter buzzer. The NBA’s best team all season, the Celtics won their 80th of 101 games by smashing Dallas on the glass and scoring 10 more points at the foul line., who like Porziņģis was added last offseason to fortify this already deep roster, contributed 15 points.
The Mavericks, the No. 5 seed in the West with only two rotation players over the age of 27, were led in scoring by , the former Celtic, suffered through a tough Game 5 with 15 points on 5-of-16 shooting which was worse than the box score indicated. Tatum and Brown have helped steer Boston to six conference finals and two NBA Finals and finally broke through Monday night. They set an NBA record for playoff games played together before winning a title. Tatum accumulated the fifth-most playoff points at the time of his first title, trailing only Jerry West,
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